Museum on the Move Pre-Visit Checklist

We're excited to come visit your school! Help us have a great day with your students by following these steps for success.

The week before your visit:

• Share the visit itinerary from your confirmation or reminder emails with the front office.
• Do you have forms you need us to sign? Please email these to us ahead of time.
• Complete the pre-visit lesson plan with your students.
• Do any of your students require additional help or translation? Please arrange for this ahead of time.
• Need to make changes to your itinerary? Click here to email us about the changes

The day of our visit:

• Let the front office know to expect our NHMU educator(s) 15-20 minutes before the scheduled start time, and where to send them.
• Classrooms work best for our visit. We'll use the whiteboard or smartboard (no computers necessary).
• Set up five stations for students to rotate around. These can be made by pushing desks together or using tables. Clear these stations of all other objects.
• Each student will need a pencil and somewhere to write (science notebook, scratch paper, etc) for recording their observations.
• If you feel like your students would benefit from a structured worksheet, you are welcome to print copies from the table below. Just one page per student!

We typically rotate through each 4th grade classroom, so it's a huge help to have your classroom ready to go before our start time!

During class:

• Your participation is expected, valued, and necessary! Teachers who participate actively are eligible for relicensure credit for their time.
• Be engaged with students during the visit.
• Help students with microscopes (Utah's Plants and Animals or Great Salt Lake topics).
• Encourage observations.
• Keep students on task and manage student behavior. We don't know your students as well as you do!